The date will display in the format you choose, no matter how you enter it. If you type "1/1/19" into a cell with the long date format, Excel will change it to the expanded date.

This article will teach you how to change the date format in Microsoft Excel to have a uniform structure across your spreadsheet.

You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

How to Auto-Format the Date in MS Excel. When you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain one or more columns of dates, you can make things a bit easier if you pre-format your cells to ...

Excel for the web now supports conditional formatting, and the interface is easier to use than the desktop edition. Susan Harkins shows you how to use it.